Seafari Stern

[oldbluesplayer]

What I notice in yours, is the port seat hatch hinge width, is much narrower than the starboard side hinge width, like by about half; not the case in mine. Also noting where the upper motor mount bolts are, in relation to the rest of the splashwell structure, granted the Suzi and the Johnson may have different motor bolt patterns, though I would guess not all that different - I'll have to measure mine for the length of the bottom of the transom cutout - It also looks like your transom doesn't provide a full back to the seats.

I wish I had the same pic available, don't right now, but have these two which I think will show some of the difference -



I'm out of town tonight, but will shoot the comparable interior / transom / seats pic this weekend and get it up here - I'm convinced there are 3 variations showing here. By the way, mine is a '73.

Nick - do you have a built in fishwell under the port side seat, like mine, or a lift out baitwell, like the specs page talks about, or just open storage?

I think maybe from this pic, you can see that there is darn little addional width on mine, past the motor.



If you go to the home page here, and look at the 20 footers, I'd say mine looks just like Hammer's 20 CC, while your's appears to be just like Tim Dugans 20CC.

So back to rebuilding the stern section, doing away with the seats, and building an improved splashwell / gate, kinda like that 18 cc - if you put in a subfloor, or extended the cabin sole, so that the batteries, one on each side, were raised up, and easier to get to, would that have a significant impact on balance, or create other issues?

I'm beginning to like this design concept alot, and am tempted to lay it out over the winter, but really want to figure out the variables and get it right - as it stands, looking back on my recent transom rebuild, there are a bunch of design related things I wish I had done different, rather than just rebuild the way it was - just for example, putting a larger radius in the lower corners of the transom notch, and then having the side of the notch be vertical, rather than sloping....

groping... and learning... and having fun

Bill